Letter to the Editor re. School Funding

BREAKING NEWS! School System to Seek Funds!!  This is the headline of an article in your October 16 issue of the News-Times and is no big surprise.  Apparently, the $19 million approved by the County Board of Commissioners was just not enough. Nineteen MILLION dollars! Nineteen million one dollar bills laid end to end would stretch 1841 miles; the distance from Morehead City to Boulder, Colorado!!  It is just unbelievable how deep the “sucking black hole” of education is in this state.

 

Kudos to the county commissioners for requiring the school system to provide quarterly reports before turning over the rest of the “booty.”  Old Blackbeard would be proud of the techniques used by our modern day pirates to fill their coffers. I hope the reports are required to include detailed itemized expenditures.

 

Why am I not surprised to see that headline? It could be because it seems to me the primary purpose of the education department in this state, from Raleigh to the county level, is to see just how much “booty” can be taken from public funds.  These folks want to squeeze us dry. Once they get the $500,000, I say they will be back before the end of the school year whining for another couple of million. I mean, what is a million here or a million there when it comes to “educating” our children?

 

I really believe the NC Department of Public Instruction could receive B. Hussein Obama’s entire initial stimulus, and would still cry for another $500,000.  Their thirst for public funds is unquenchable.

I don’t believe the school boards publicize all the sources of their “booty.”  There are several sources other than our tax money.  And I am probably asking for a lot of criticism by not revealing the referenced sources. But, if anyone is interested in knowing of those sources, do a little research.  The Demowhacks and other progressive liberal leftists would not accept my sources anyway, so I suggest they check it out on their own. They might be surprised, I know I was.

 

Just one person’s opinion.

 

Harry Thompson